I like words with emphasis. Plethora, in particular, strikes me as a strong word. So does dolt.And fraught. Really, who uses fraught? I once worked it into a headline though I doubt if I could now.
But I also would argue for words that are generally rejected as non-words.
Irregardless is one of my favorites, and though I avoid using it, in my head, I sometimes shout "irregardless" as in, to my teenager, "Irregardless of what Brittany, Stephanie and Andrea are doing, you are NOT going out to toilet paper the coach's house!"
I don't, of course, actually use it. Sure, go ahead and drum me out of the editor corps.
Speaking of drumming and corps, it's my impression that an awful lot of copy editors were in their high school band. What do you think? Similar personality traits involved? Come on, don't be embarrassed.
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Baritone horn.
Fleming County High School Marching Panthers
John McIntyre
Trumpet for three years, drum major my senior year, Tulsa Central High School Marching Braves (probably soon to be the Daisies, or the Wolves)
--Sharon Baldwin
I wasn't in the band, but I was in the Gaming Society, dedicated to role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons.
Hey, if Stephen Colbert can admit it, so can I...
Basketball and the Latin Club.
I always marched to a different drummer. And played the piano. Alone. At home. (I was, however, editor-in-chief of the Blue & White at Los Angeles High School. Go Romans!)
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